Sadly for this icy golem, no, they haven't nerfed my spells: The fact that being in LOS of any part of a zoo gives you LOS on the entire zoo apparently also means that you can toss a rift (or, presumably, any point-and-click spell, like recursive curse, arctic vortex, rune of exploding, etc.) without actually being able to see the tile you're hitting.
Yeah, I've abused this with my Promethian Mages. Prior to 1.0.5 you could spam Fireballs anywhere in the Zoo, which was OP as fuck and trivialized all Zoos. These days, I kill off the mobs near the entrance with Fireballs or Pyrokinesis or whatever, and then spam Expensive Runes on ANY non-occupied square in the Zoo, which is OP as fuck and trivializes the rest of the Zoo. =/